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Michael Rosen

Summer Managing Editor at The Daily Californian

Michael Rosen is the current Sports Editor and a Senior Staff writer at the Daily Cal. He served as the Assistant Sports Editor in the spring of 2013. In his time in the sports department, he has covered almost every prominent Cal sport, including football, men's basketball, women's softball and baseball. He was hired in the fall of 2011 as a men's soccer writer.

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Brett Green is an assistant professor at the Haas Business School who, in tandem with Stanford University’s Jeff Zweibel, recently wrote a paper in the controversial field of “hot hand” literature. The “hot hand” is a concept in sports that states a player can become “hot” and temporarily increase hisRead More…

Cal men’s basketball head coach Mike Montgomery has decided to retire. At a press conference at Haas Pavilion on Monday afternoon, Montgomery, alongside Athletic Director Sandy Barbour, announced he would be stepping down from his position. “I’ve envisioned this moment for a long time,” Montgomery said. “I wish I couldRead More…

The Cal men’s basketball team had seen this movie before: Justin Cobbs dribbling up court in the final seconds, with a chance to put the Bears in front. SMU was in the lead, 64-62. There were 20 seconds, then 19, then 18. In possibly the senior’s final college contest, itRead More…

Here’s a situation that happens to me not irregularly. (conversation turns to housing) “Where do you live?” “Cedar and Milvia,” I say. “Where’s that?” “You know where Cheese Board is?” “What? How do you live that far away?” And so on. I’m well aware there are people who live evenRead More…

There were 20 minutes until tipoff and the band members outnumbered the people in the stands. There were no students in the overflow section. A man in an A’s shirt sitting alone in the very back row glanced up and down at his phone. Half the courtside seats were empty.Read More…

It feels like so long ago that it’s hard to believe it ever happened, but I promise, these Bears were, once upon a time, legitimately good. The date was Jan. 18, and the Cal men’s basketball team was one of the biggest surprises in the country. Thanks primarily to aRead More…

They’re playing a game Wednesday, and maybe even a few more after that, but for all intents and purposes, the Cal men’s basketball season is over. Thinking back on where these guys were just weeks ago, it’s pretty crazy they’re preparing to host a first-round NIT game against Utah Valley.Read More…

Editor’s note: The Daily Cal will be publishing Pac-12 Power Rankings every week, alternating between men’s and women’s basketball. Power rankings are determined by the Daily Cal’s basketball writers and do not necessarily reflect the current Pac-12 standings. 1. Arizona (28-3, 15-3 Pac-12) (Last week: 1st) Unless the Wildcats allRead More…

There’s no more important time of the year for college basketball teams than the home stretch of conference play. The nonconference games of the previous year are distant memories. The results of early-season conference tilts can be deemed flukes or slow starts. But those late-season matchups are played under theRead More…

It had certainly been a long, long time since Chet Monkawa actually felt lucky. At a lottery earlier that day, he and Earl Worthing — a resident from the San Francisco boarding house Monkawa runs — entered a raffle for a modern American phenomenon: a brand-new television. Miraculously, they hadRead More…